“You have to govern yourself; nobody’s gonna tell you. You don’t have to record, you can do whatever you wanna do all day. You don’t have to absorb music. You don’t have to absorb sounds, inspiration. You don’t have to do any of that shit. So who’s gonna give you the blueprint for that?”

The mini-documentary begins with SZA receiving a pep-talk from her labelmate Isaiah Rashad, a scene that defines her comments about growing and learning from her fellow cohorts including Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar.

“With joining TDE, I was super shy and I’m still pretty shy. But they never catered to that, and I appreciate that. You can trust their opinion. You can trust their, knowledge, their work ethic, their skill set.”